Design Data

Design Information

Specific Design data

Basic Engineering data

Jirdsak Tscheikuna
Lecture 02

Specific Design Data

Raw Materials and Products:

Specific Design Data

Specification: compositions or purity or

physical properties.

Specific Design Data

Raw Materials and Products:

Specifications
Temperatures and Pressures (storage)
Amounts to be produced or to be fed
Monetary values (Cost)
Availability and seasonal products.
Hazardous, and Toxicity

Reaction Information
Stoichiometry of the participating reactions
or laboratory reaction data of product
distributions.

Specific Design Data

Reaction Information: All available
laboratory and pilot plant data on reaction
and phase equilibrium behaviors.

Reaction Information

Stoichiometry of the participating reactions

Reaction temperature and pressure
Phase (s) of the reaction system
Heats of reaction and equilibrium data
Rate of Reaction relating it to composition,
temperature, pressure, impurities, catalysts,
and so on
Thermal and other physical properties
necessary for process calculation

Reaction Information

Specific Design Data

Activity of the catalyst as a function of time

Mode of catalyst reactivation and
replacement
Stability and controllability of the process
Special considerations of heat and mass
transfer
Corrosion and safety hazards

Any available existing plant data of similar

processes.
Local restrictions on means of disposal of
wastes.

Basic Engineering Data

Basic Engineering Data

Characteristics and values of gaseous and

liquid fuels that to be used.
Characteristics of raw makeup and cooling
tower waters, temperatures, maximum
allowable temperature, flow rates available,
and unit costs.

Basic Engineering Data

Steam and condensate: mean pressures and
temperatures and their fluctuations at each
level, amount available, extent of recovery
of condensate, and unit costs.

Basic Engineering Data

Electrical power: Voltages allowed for
instruments, lighting and various driver
sizes, transformer capacities, need for
emergency generator, unit costs.
Compressed air: capacities and pressures of
plant and instrument air, instrument air
dryer.

Basic Engineering Data

Plant site elevation.
Soil bearing value, frost depth, ground
water depth, piling requiremnets, available
soil test data.

Basic Engineering Data

Climate data. Winter and summer
temperature extrema, cooling tower drybulb
temperature, air cooler design temparature,
strength and direction of prevailing winds
rain and snowfall maxima in 1 hr and in 2
hr, earthquake provision.

Basic Engineering Data

Basic Engineering Data

Blowdown and flare: What may or may not

be vented to the atmosphere or to ponds or
to natural waters, nature of required liquid,
and vapor relief systems.

Buildings: process, pump, control

instruments, special equipment.
Paving types required in different areas.
Pipe racks: elevations, grouping, coding.

Drainage and sewers: rainwater, oil,

sanitary.

Battery limit pressures and temperatures of

individual feed stocks and products.

Basic Engineering Data

Codes: those governing pressure vessels,
other equipment, buildings, electrical,
safety, sanitation, and others.

Sources of Information

Miscellaneous: includes heater stacks,

winterizing, insulation, steam or electrical
tracing of lines, heat exchanger tubing size
standardization, instrument locations.

Survey Literature

Research Journals
Encyclopedias
Handbooks and Reference Books
Indexes
Patents
SRI Design Reports

Encyclopedias
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical
Technology
the Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing
and Design (McKetta and Cunningham)
Ullmans Encyclopedia of Industrial
Chemistry

Encyclopedias

Handbooks and Reference Books

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and

Technology
Van Nostrands Scientific Encyclopedia
the Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics
the Encyclopedia of Materials Science and
Engineering

Perrys Chemical Engineers Handbook

the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and
Physics
JANAF Thermochemical Tables
Riegels Handbook of Industrial Chemistry
the Chemical Processing Handbook
the Unit Operations Handbook

Handbooks and Reference Books

Process Design and Engineering Practice
Data for Process Design and Engineering
Practice
the Handbook of Reactive Chemical
Hazards

Indexes

Applied Science and Technology Index

the Engineering Index
Chemical Abstracts
the Science Citation Index